What about after working on one? I recently rebuilt the engine on a smaller, foreign made, Ford branded tractor for a friend of mine. Finally got everthing back together and got it running for pickup. Called the guy and he said he would pick it up the next day. Since I was wasn't going to be at the shop that day I backed it out on the pad and and left the keys for him. I got a call right after lunch telling me it wouldn't start and asking how I got the thing started since the switch wasn't working. I told him how to bypass the switch and get it going since he had plans to use it that afternoon. It had acted up on me one time right after I got everything hooked up, something I attributed to it having set for nearly a year and a half between the time the engine went down and it was brought to me to get rebuilt. Funny thing though in several dozen starts after the one hiccup it hit on the first turn of the key and never acted up again. We discussed this later that evening and he remembered it doing the same thing once before to him several months before the engine spun a bearing and the tractor got parked. At the time he had gotten a new switch but had never replaced it because it never acted up again. never heard of any more problms so I guess the new switch solved the problem.
Given the situation it was no big deal but it was still embarrasing to me to do a complete rebuild on a man's machine and then it not even start with the switch when I got done...
Then there was the Ford that I serviced for a customer. He said he always had problems bleeding the fuel lines after changing the filters. I had no problem doing it and ran the tractor around the property several times before calling the guy to pick it up. His wife dropped him off to drive it home and he made it maybe 50 feet down the drive before it sputtered and died. Bled the lines again and he made it another 100 feet before it died again. Bled once again and it was another 50 feet to the end of the drive. We pulled it back down to the shop and bled and moved it twice more before it ever ran long enough for him to get out the drive and headed home with it. From that point on it ran like a top. I've seen engines that were hard to get bled but NEVER before or since have I seen one that did like this one did....especially the part where I ran it around the yard for 15 minutes with no problems but he couldn' make it another 150 feet without bleeding it another 5 or 6 times. But, like the old saying goes...'just when you think you've seen it all............'
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